The tough measures on COVID-19, including the decision to close schools, have been viewed by many state leaders as politically popular. Until that popularity subsided and such policies subsided.”
The six-month review was funded by three charities – the John and Myriam Wylie Foundation, the Paul Ramsay Foundation and Andrew Forest’s Minderoo Foundation – and conducted by Shergold. Company Director Gillian Broadbent; University of Queensland Chancellor and former diplomat Peter Varghese; and Isobel Marshall, women’s rights activist and 2021 Australian Young Man of the Year award.
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Their report, published Thursday, suggests that children living in low socioeconomic zip codes felt school closures felt even more, with a study by the Mitchell Institute finding that one in five did not have access to a laptop or computer at home.
A survey of NSW teachers in 2020 found that only 18 per cent of teachers in low socioeconomic status schools were confident that their students were learning well from remote classrooms.
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Marshall said she was shocked when the review was conducted at the way the pandemic has affected school-age children, particularly those who did not have access to technology and parental supervision or were not safe at home.
“A lot of these students are being assessed and their scores reflect factors that are completely out of their control and are not taken into account in pandemic planning,” she said. Sydney Morning Herald And the the age. “We needed to put these flaws at the forefront of the pandemic response.”
The report calls for cost-benefit and risk-management frameworks to be developed before the next public health crisis, to enable schools and universities to keep classes open unless robust health advice outweighs the potential educational, social and economic cost.
It found no justification for shutting down entire school systems.
In cases where health advice requires school closures, classes should remain open for children at risk, as well as children of essential workers.
“The experience of jurisdictions that are now running schools safely through COVID-19 provides a strong evidence base for the policy that should prevail in future pandemics.”
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Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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